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Purpose of this program:

The AREA program has three objectives: (a) To develop the research environment at "smaller, less prominent, four-year, public and private colleges and universities which provide baccalaureate or advanced training for a significant number of our nation's research scientists but which have not shared adequately in the growth of the NIH extramural program," (b) to expose students at such institutions to the research experience, and (c) to support meritorious research.